Auto connect with the tenant hurricanes
Rental car giant Hertz has its contracts, customers for damage caused by acts of nature.
It told its best customers during the last month, that the responsibility for car damage from natural causes such as storms, tornadoes and hurricanes. In the past, it was the lessor of responsibility. Avis and Budget move in the same direction.
A informed its Hertz # 1 Club Gold members of policy implementation in the calm of last year for the rest of its customers. Hertz said, this is not the first company so that the modification, so that was underway before Hurricane Katrina.
But company spokesman Richard Broome, said the catastrophic storm shows why customers should be held responsible. The tenants were aware of next devastated by the hurricane, that the coast of golf last summer and returned vehicles before it is Struck, or pushed in safety. Affirms Katrina, only a few hundred cars Hertz, a remarkably small “loss in the current circumstances, he says.
The general principle has always been that the tenant assumes responsibility for damage to motor vehicles, Broome said. Given that the tenant is already responsible for the inevitable traffic accidents, it follows that they are responsible should be acts of nature, which are often predictable, “he said.
California and Wisconsin have laws on the prohibition of placing leasing companies responsibility on consumers for acts of nature, Broome said. New York and Indiana have laws prohibiting the transfer of responsibility on consumers to floods, “he says.
Cendant Car Rental Group, owner of Avis and Budget, is considering a similar change of policy for all tenants Avis and Budget Fastbreak members, spokeswoman Susan M. McGowan. Tickets other customers are already liable for damages resulting from physical acts.
National, Alamo, Thrifty, Dollar and Enterprise, also a tenant. “It is disgusting,” said the lawyer consumer Clarence Ditlow of the Center for the safety car, a group founded by Ralph Nader. “Only because it is an industrywide practice, it is not fair.”
Emmanuel Daniel, a member of Hertz # 1 Club Gold and Avis Preferred, is not satisfied that the burden of proof on the tenant. “I think this policy comes from the rash of hurricanes in recent years, but it penalizes a lot of people who are not in these areas,” said the adviser Motor Shenandoah, Texas.
Most tenants have auto insurance personal protection pays for damage to a rented vehicle, Broome said. In some cases, credit cards for rental coverage. The tenant can also buy Hertz to a denial of damage, the transfer of responsibility for leasing companies. Damage caused by natural causes would be in a private car insurance, if it includes comprehensive coverage, says Michael LaPlaca, a lawyer, Maryland, writes lease for car rentals.
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